It came from a discussion many years ago among people from a range of different schools about the worst teachers they remember. For no obvious reason coaches had a disproportionately high representation there, like more than half the mentioned worst teachers were coaches, and some of the stories were pretty horrific. The coach who, when one of the kids fathers died and he had to give up after-school sports in order to work to support his family, scratched his face out of the sports team photos deserves special mention, but some others were nearly as bad.

Nor do you, in the sense that I never said what you've quoted above. Nice try though.

Yup, that's de Beers at work, if you're permitted a quota from de Beers you're not allowed to deal in stones not from them, and can't deal with anyone else who doesn't play by the de Beers rules. For the full details of how much they've got this sewn up, read "The Last Empire" which, despite being nearly 30 years old, is still valid today.

In addition, I've been seeing this "synthetic stones will change everything and kill the de Beers monopoly" since at least the 1980s (The Last Empire covers it too, from the mid 1990s). If they were going to kill de Beers they would have done so by now.

It's not just that, lack of use and misuse of encryption is pervasive in the Android ecosystem. It's not just "Chinese keyboard apps", look at any market segment you like and you'll find either poor to nonexistent encryption or, where TLS is used, lack of host name verification, lack of certificate checking, you name it. In some cases it's so bad that it's easier to list the few apps that do get it right (as far as an external check can tell) than the ones that don't.

This guy wasn't a teacher, he was an "athletics director" which presumably means sports coach. While there are some good school sports coaches, the field does seem to attract a disproportionate number of complete assholes. In particular, thinking themselves and what they do is above everyone and everything else in the school seems an all-too-common trait.

This may explain why almost any Google search on how to do something leads to a Youtube video with 8 minutes of crapping on about how they're going to tell you how to solve the problem followed by them not solving the problem. And on to the next video and another can of Brawndo.

Interesting point! Just out of interest, how does that work when military folks, perhaps who have been stationed overseas and so have been entirely immersed in metric, return to US civilian life?

This being the US, I assume when you say "healthcare" you actually mean "money to be made from barely providing any while charging a fortune from it". Oracle is following the source of money, not anything to do with providing health care.

So what you're pointing out is that the headline is really saying "we can't fleece the rubes with overpriced somethingLED TVs any more so now we're going to convince them they need somethingelseLED TVs at premium prices instead".

Here's a historic photo of early stages of construction showing progress made at the time.

Same here, mostly because it's the US, and the chances of high-speed rail, and a whole bunch of other obviously-the-right-thing stuff succeeding there are about the same as the chances of the metric system succeeding. They'll find some way to sabotage it or screw it up.

Apart from the y'all-watch-this factor, security-wise it seems it'd be more useful to have a completely different, randomised build each time so attackers can't target a monoculture binary image.

In terms of "you can use it to verify source to binary equivalence", you're already relying entirely on trusting the developers to not do anything malicious, so what advantage is there to a reproducible build vs. downloading a signed binary? And for it to work you need signed source code and a signed attestation that when built the code has hash value X, which is just a really clunky way to do a signed binary.

What attack is this preventing that manifests and signed binaries as used by every package manager ever for years don't?

This is the original 1970s-vintage Z80 and more recent derivatives like the Z180, it looks like the eZ80 is still active, so it's not the entire Z80 family that's going away, just the more-awkward-to-work-with older members.

As opposed to the US services where we know the USG has been accessing the information, over and over again. Heck, they just renewed a law saying that's exactly what they're doing. But hey, bread and circuses, look at the yellow bogeymen over there and pay no attention to what your own government agencies are busy doing.

And that's the specific problem with China, lots of heavy buildings dropped onto river floodplains with foundations sitting on sediment, it's not surprising that they're slowly sinking into it.